Motivational Quotes

Change

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

- Freeman, James Dillet

Best Quotes about Change

Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

Jackson, Jesse

Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

The things that have come into being change continually. The man with a good memory remembers nothing because he forgets nothing.

Bastos, Augusto Roa

A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs

We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

Change happens in the boiler room of our emotions... so find out how to light their fires.

Dewar, Jeff

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The way of the creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the great harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

I Ching

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Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you'll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

Braude, Jacob M.

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A rut is a grave with no ends.

Lampkin, Alan

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.

Kettering, Charles F.

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You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

Schuller, Robert H.

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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In order to change, we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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For organizations and employees alike, the only real security is the ability to grow, change and adapt.

Kearney

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Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, -- but it returneth.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

Carlyle, Thomas

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Bellin, Gita

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You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

Heraclitus

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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Things do not change; we change.

Henry David Thoreau

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If a man like Malcolm X could change and repudiate racism, if I myself and other former Muslims can change, if young whites can change, then there is hope for America.

Cleaver, Eldridge

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

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There is no new thing under the sun. [Ecclesiastes 1:9]

Bible

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If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and to change, then it is unlikely that one would get the same results if one were to repeat the study.

Dyer, Wayne

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Two basic rules of life: 1. Change is Inevitable 2. Everyone Resists Change. Remember this: When you are through changing... you're through.

36.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.

Carol Burnett

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Changes start occurring when budgets are cut.

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It is not well to make great changes in old age.

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon

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The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

Astor, Lady Nancy

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To change and change for the better are two different things

Proverb, German

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The problem is not whether business will survive in competition with business, but whether any business will survive at all in the ;face of social change.

Mcginley, Laurence J.

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When you make a career change there has to be some kind of connection. I remember a Beverly Hills attorney who wanted to become a potato farmer in Oregon. Well, there's a guy who's born to lose.

Richfield, Lew

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That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain.

Bacon, Francis

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The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

Watts, Alan W.

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Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Niebuhr, Reinhold

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A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.

Einstein, Albert

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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The search for static security -- in the law and elsewhere -- is misguided. The fact is security can only be achieved through constant change, adapting old ideas that have outlived their usefulness to current facts.

Douglas, William O.

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Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being.

Eliot, George